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and explanations as Mr. Short might 

 add. 



A. E. PRICE. 



PHILO W. SMITH, Jr., and CHAS. 

 S. THOMPSON, concurring. 



I regret that lack of space forbids 

 printing the opinions of the other two 

 members of the committee. Mr. 

 Thompson's was specially interesting 

 in its side lights on the subject. 



We all make mistakes and this mat- 

 ter is not published because the set 

 of Woodcock were typical Meadow 

 Lark, but on account of the unsatis- 

 factory settlements attempted and the 

 bearing of several other matters in- 

 volved, which would seem to indicate 

 a continued intention to defraud. Our 

 committee believes in allowing every- 

 one the benefit of all doubts and in- 

 sist that it is every one's privilege 

 to straighten up matters of this kind 

 without publication, even when in 

 some cases, as Mr. Thompson says, 

 "an innocent person is involved to his 

 discomfort, and some times to his in- 

 convenience and discredit, when, he is, 

 in fact, entirely innocent." 



However, we feel that this much is 

 necessary to protect others. 



ERNEST H. SHORT, 



Chairman '"Oologist Protective Com. 



Publications Received. 



Journal of the Maine Ornithological 

 Society, Vol. VII, No. 4, contains an in- 

 teresting article on duck shooting with 

 some conclusions on magazine guns, 

 which we heartily agree with, by F. T. 

 Noble, and the "Notes on Maine 

 Warblers" is continued by O. W. 

 Knight, B. S., treating the Life History 

 of the Myrtle Warbler at length. 



We are informed by the Editor 

 that the abridgement in size is caused 

 by lack of funds, and trust that the 

 society may secure financial aid at 



once that there may be no excuse 

 for a discontinuance. 



"The Condor," Vol. VII, No. 6, is 

 unusually full of good things too 

 numerous to mention and beautifully 

 illustrated. 



We would call special attention to 

 the article on Costa Rican Collecting, 

 by Prof. Ridgeway and the descrip- 

 tions of two new subspecies, i. e., Pa- 

 cific Nighthawk, Ch. v. hesperis, by 

 Jos. Grinnell, and Mountain Towhee, 

 P. M., megalonyx, by H. S. Swarth. 



Mr. Swarth's remarks on the value 

 of the subspecies P. M. atratus, are 

 in accord with our opinion and we 

 think with Dr. Dwight and other 

 prominent Ornithologists, that the 

 hairsplitting has gone far enough. 



Condor, Vol. VIII, No. 1; Photo- 

 graphic Times, Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 1 

 and 2; Am. Ornithology, Vol. VI, No. 

 1 and 2; "The West," Vol. XXXI, No. 

 3. 



